Microsoft on the Issues - All Comments/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/default.aspxNews and perspectives on legal, public policy and citizenship topics.News and perspectives on legal, public policy and citizenship topics.7.x ProductionRE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxThu, 21 Mar 2013 03:22:34 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbJeffrey Meisner0<p>@Sales Rep Romania. We would like to learn as much as we can about the concerns you have raised so that we may appropriately review them. If you are a Microsoft employee, we trust that you are aware of the various means available to discuss or explain your concerns, including confidentially (to the extent permitted by law). I have listed some of our reporting and escalation tools below; I have also provided my contact information if you would like to contact me directly. We are also willing to explore other options with you to allow further dialogue to occur, including putting you or a representative for you in contact with our outside counsel (his contact information is below). We look forward to hearing back from you soon. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Greg Vamos</p>
<p>Assistant General Counsel</p>
<p>Office of Legal Compliance</p>
<p>Legal and Corporate Affairs Department</p>
<p>Microsoft Corporation</p>
<p>One Microsoft Way</p>
<p>Redmond, WA 98052</p>
<p>T: +1 425 703 2716</p>
<p>gvamos@microsoft.com</p>
<p>Outside Counsel:</p>
<p>&bull; Darryl S. Lew</p>
<p>White &amp; Case LLP</p>
<p>701 Thirteenth Street, NW</p>
<p>Washington DC 20005-3807</p>
<p>dlew@whitecase.com</p>
<p>T: + 1 202 626 3674</p>
<p>F: + 1 202 639 9355</p>
<p>Other Resources:</p>
<p>&bull; The Business Conduct Line at 1 (877) 320-MSFT (6738). If you are calling from outside the United States, you may make a collect call to the Business Conduct Line by accessing an international operator and asking to place a collect call to +1 (704) 540-0139. This phone line is operated by an external third-party vendor that has trained professionals to take calls, in confidence, and report concerns to the Microsoft Director of Compliance for appropriate action.</p>
<p>&bull; The Microsoft Integrity Website, which allows for concerns to be submitted anonymously (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/compliance/buscond/integrity.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/compliance/buscond/integrity.aspx).</a></p>
<p>&bull; The Business Conduct and Compliance &lt;buscond@microsoft.com&gt; and Anti-Corruption &lt;anticpt@microsoft.com&gt; aliases, which are internal email addresses for reporting compliance concerns.</p>
<p>&bull; Communications by mail (to the Director of Compliance at Microsoft Corporation, Legal and Corporate Affairs, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052) or by fax (to (425) 708-7177).</p><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxThu, 21 Mar 2013 02:29:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbvnus.ht@hotmail.co.th0<p>My ok good.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxThu, 21 Mar 2013 01:35:30 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbAnonymous0<p>No company can claim to be free of fools, but Microsoft can certainly prove consistent diligence in weeding them out. The avenues to seek redress are well-publicized and open to those who choose not to seek cheap and temporary satisfaction from an anonymous spiteful rant.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 20:13:15 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbAnonymous0<p>@Sales Rep Romania: Hey Idiot! You sound like a willing participant. The choice of being ethical or unethical is yours. The choice of blowing the whistle on your managers is yours. That bloody mouth that you shoot off and the fingers that type are yours. Your bonus is yours and those feet that can quit and walk up to other companies are also yours. Microsoft, like any other organization in the world is made up of people (and apparently snivelling toads such as you) and is accountable for corrupt behaviour. To generalize and say that the whole company is corrupt is unfair. </p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 19:11:56 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbAnonymous0<p>I work in Microsoft Sales Romania. This is such a hypocrisy!!! “Do whatever you have to do to win this contract!!” This is what our managers told us in every occasion, especially with government contracts and the oil companies. And now they pretend they have some sort of values? This makes me sick. It was not about kickbacks but, rather, about serious bribes of 100s of thousand of euros funneled via subcontractors. Just investigate some of the subcontracts where Microsoft won (as a front – or “paravan” as we called it in Romanian) so we get market share expansion, but with no profit as we gave the contract to our “friend” subcontractors that, otherwise, could never have won those contracts (because they didn&#39;t have enough credentials - credentials which, BTW, are typically rigged in order to match unique features of Microsoft whether those are relevant or not). Then, in exchange for the &quot;service&quot;, they were giving us kickbacks, out of which we give back to the government/oil industry via phantom consulting contracts. Bleah… IMO, all this is all right - just, please, and I mean, by God, please, don&#39;t act scandalized and surprised all of the sudden. It insults our intelligence.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 17:56:26 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbAnonymous0<p>What a load of rubbish.</p>
<p>What about ISO and OOXML? </p>
<p>The stuffing of many of the national bodies,</p>
<p>The Microsoft executive, Doug Mahuhh, posing as Vice President of IASA Malaysia,</p>
<p>Ballot rigging,</p>
<p>Buying of those massive ISO voting bodies like Cote D&#39;Ivory...</p>
<p>The list goes on.</p>
<p>Get real Microsoft</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 14:59:26 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbAnonymous0<p>&quot;As our company has grown and expanded around the world, one of the things that has been constant has been our commitment to the highest legal and ethical standards wherever we do business.&quot;</p>
<p>rofl</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Commitment to Compliancehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/19/our-commitment-to-compliance.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 14:17:13 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:329e671d-63b1-4cce-b8f9-1712e7e6eddbAnonymous0<p>Hmmm.....it certainly is getting close to April&#39;s Fools Day. </p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559637&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Student Privacy Should Not Be for Salehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/student-privacy-should-not-be-for-sale.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 08:35:06 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:cea1271b-291b-43ad-9bd2-ff2188723120i.e.serge.tremblay0<p>is great comment im shure 200 classe in sud Africa beneficied at free education on my budjet and last salary reseve is 10 ear a go and il pay all further depensse from my poket and il pay classe rome for most dan 3 mont whith the valu of your nice coats tanks for your comprention im use serious next time to resolve your concern is priority to noting pep[ole not see the verity tanks you can submit your disponability to be volonter and find the particule be obscure in my project for my parts </p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556990&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: New White House Initiative Takes Smart Steps Toward Stronger Protection of Trade Secretshttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/02/20/new-white-house-initiative-takes-smart-steps-toward-stronger-protection-of-trade-secrets.aspxWed, 20 Mar 2013 08:19:52 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:ab4c3a21-2773-464e-a68d-746ee95c749dAnonymous0<p>the future is now the perspective is prometeuse and whit the great tool somme people &nbsp;bulder to equipe the future creator all is now im shur is relay importente you keep the tim for find the goode id atribued at the good creator in the greats time because many tym this want have just this in Esperance but maby gode blesse me again timing timing good way at all</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3553958&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Windows 8 Family Safety Settings Help Keep Kids Safer Onlinehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/01/08/windows-8-family-safety-settings-help-keep-kids-safer-online.aspxTue, 19 Mar 2013 08:05:16 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:f5f2357d-cc6e-4007-873b-5a02f1585165Anonymous0<p>I would like to have parental controls that limit the times that my child can &nbsp;access a web site (e.g. facebook, youtube, etc.). &nbsp;Much like the current &quot;block site&quot;, but with a time frame that the rule is effective (e.g. 9PM - 6PM, so they can access the site from 6 - 9PM). &nbsp;I don&#39;t think I can do that with Windows 8, and I am having a difficult time finding a tool that can do it at all.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3543923&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Privacy and a New Era of Personal Computing: A View from Brusselshttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/11/20/privacy-and-a-new-era-of-personal-computing-a-view-from-brussels.aspxSun, 17 Mar 2013 12:37:34 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:b72abd48-8fd4-46bd-93fb-84935992056bi.e.serge.tremblay0<p>in general way the big parts of data is formed by collaborative team or public diffuser tv radio and for particular the sam law is aplicat of the way in respect of law medical recherche and medical data have hight degree of protection similar of way of telephoni and fax exchange for mi parts have see many team worke whit this programme and have don&#39;t can be observe somme won for bad il anderstend your preoccupation but when you finishe &nbsp;and you use this fabuluse outil for recherche for medcin and &nbsp;. many greats way many people and businesseman and women go and use for positive change for my parts im passe my time to creats greats environement whit greats software for all of yongwer woman and creator can be exchange and creat another positive way maby when all people is to muche preocuped by creating somme ting butifull and great and after this don&#39;t have any more time to be preocuped by your grand secret &nbsp;for my parts many professionel team taks &nbsp;time to lots time and energy to resolve all security concerne for my parts noting see something don&#39;t want and not just in my computer tank for your compreantion sorry for fault of lagage is note my first langage telay tanks</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3533463&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: The Patent System: Fix What’s Broken, Don’t Break What’s Working http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/02/21/the-patent-system-fix-what-s-broken-don-t-break-what-s-working.aspxSun, 17 Mar 2013 11:32:28 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:98ca281c-fb51-4d9e-8b2b-f48ef3c20841i.e.serge.tremblay0<p>Il have strange sensation &nbsp;when read allusion abut incertitude for the future us &nbsp;be continues to have support of innovation from &nbsp;the right ower of patent have past the last 10 ear at work hardly whit my partenaire Microsoft for the benefite at all human on this planet have ideal of better world and respect of the environement and familliale value for promote and defend the most fragile around you and me is ideologie and innovation can be compared at all auther invention ex car this won can be utile for deplacement go to hospital save live but in the bad hand hors someone don&#39;t have the rigt conaissance can be sourc of destruction and can be kill people is for that this invention juste need to be in good place for the right use and is not easy to find somme pepol don&#39;t just interested by profit is good parts but somme won comme crazy when se the greats possibility of this invention tank for your great compreantion and don&#39;t worry im continu to works whit all my precedent friend and co worker</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3554271&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Student Privacy Should Not Be for Salehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/student-privacy-should-not-be-for-sale.aspxSun, 17 Mar 2013 05:01:25 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:cea1271b-291b-43ad-9bd2-ff2188723120pedro_mann@hotmail.com0<p>@Joe Google destroying Windows? Actually Microsoft did that themselves. Google just gets the pleasure of picking up the crumbs that fall off the table. </p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556990&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Microsoft PhotoDNA Technology to Help Law Enforcement Fight Child Pornographyhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/03/19/microsoft-photodna-technology-to-help-law-enforcement-fight-child-pornography.aspxSun, 17 Mar 2013 04:08:38 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:15b60096-4b6d-43f2-8e54-aeeab0a7c8d7Anonymous0<p>fine so long as it remains in the right hands but beware. this same technology can be used &nbsp;outside the asserted parameters of usage, thank you Microsoft fow yet another tool of distopia. .</p>
<p>isnt it odd that &quot;child protection&quot; is always used to justify further intrusion into the lives of ordinary people.</p>
<p>does secure boot ring a bell? it should YOU, microsoft STAND GUILTY OF SYSTEMATICALLY DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGY, THE PURPOSE OF WHICH, IS TO STIFFLE THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS TO USE THEIR OWN COMPUTERS IN THE MANNER THEY CHOOSE.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3486994&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Advancing Consumer Trust and Privacy: Internet Explorer in Windows 8http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/05/31/advancing-consumer-trust-and-privacy-internet-explorer-in-windows-8.aspxSat, 16 Mar 2013 06:09:58 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:0b6d5643-51b0-490e-8e6f-7c6494b66012Anonymous0<p>Attaching or otherwise using cookies to follow, track, or use to target me &amp; my email addresses is a gross invasion of my pricacy. When I use your service, I expect &amp; demand the respect &amp; privacy that your service claims to provide.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3501319&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Among the ‘World’s Most Ethical Companies’http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/14/among-the-world-s-most-ethical-companies.aspxFri, 15 Mar 2013 17:36:42 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:fa3244b9-90a6-4e06-a5d2-515100c82343vnus.ht@hotmail.co.th0<p>My like tunk you.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3558499&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Putting Privacy First in 2013http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/12/12/putting-privacy-first-in-2013.aspxFri, 15 Mar 2013 01:20:14 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:b296660b-5405-4c50-8629-d9a4838c331dAnonymous0<p> my computer internet explorer provelem</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3540564&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: One Billion and Counting…http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/02/20/one-billion-and-counting.aspxWed, 13 Mar 2013 00:55:52 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:4fe3c193-0e89-4d20-a612-bc2f384f91eeAnonymous0<p>I &nbsp;hope we&#39;ve been successful in doing that.</p>
<p>You&#39;re a real human being that God will help you.</p>
<p>I always pray for success .</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3553443&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Our Licensing Deal with Samsung: How IP Drives Innovation and Collaborationhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/09/28/our-licensing-deal-with-samsung-how-ip-drives-innovation-and-collaboration.aspxTue, 12 Mar 2013 01:35:36 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:e9e8431d-701a-4342-b42a-72f4bfa9bb12Anonymous0<p>FOSS is true in many applications have evolved a lot and has a great future. The payment software, however have to adapt to changing marketplace</p>
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<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3455916&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Student Privacy Should Not Be for Salehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/student-privacy-should-not-be-for-sale.aspxMon, 11 Mar 2013 00:15:16 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:cea1271b-291b-43ad-9bd2-ff2188723120vnus.ht@hotmail.co.th0<p>I ok verry good.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556990&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Women: Talent and Potential are Boundless, Opportunity Should be Too…http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/women-talent-and-potential-are-boundless-opportunity-should-be-too.aspxSun, 10 Mar 2013 19:01:58 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:350f9338-3539-4a2f-ac17-dae3fc7910faAnonymous0<p>This was beautifully written. Well said! Definitely sharing.</p>
<p>All the best,</p>
<p>Woman expat in Abu Dhabi, UAE </p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556649&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Student Privacy Should Not Be for Salehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/student-privacy-should-not-be-for-sale.aspxSun, 10 Mar 2013 10:28:09 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:cea1271b-291b-43ad-9bd2-ff2188723120Anonymous0<p>unbelievable hypocrites. To level this at Google while your founding father funds the most blatant of all school database - do doubt using your software at a discount.</p>
<p>You just can&#39;t make this stuff up...</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556990&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Student Privacy Should Not Be for Salehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/student-privacy-should-not-be-for-sale.aspxSun, 10 Mar 2013 06:53:39 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:cea1271b-291b-43ad-9bd2-ff2188723120Anonymous0<p>@Evans</p>
<p>I guess that&#39;s why the Gates Foundation (Murdocks News Corp) financed the </p>
<p>inBloom student database. Of course you guys don&#39;t need to mine your cloud</p>
<p>data, not when you&#39;ll have a database of ALL students in the US. &nbsp;Your</p>
<p>&#39;assurances&#39; mean nothing. &nbsp;Microsoft has never done ANYTHING that couldn&#39;t</p>
<p>be monetized. &nbsp;Save your rhetoric for your Congressional bid.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556990&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Student Privacy Should Not Be for Salehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/06/student-privacy-should-not-be-for-sale.aspxSun, 10 Mar 2013 03:32:23 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:cea1271b-291b-43ad-9bd2-ff2188723120Anonymous0<p>Translation: We hate google coming in and destroying the only two things making us money: Windows and Office!</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556990&AppID=8295&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">